Episode 3.2 - Pseudo-Objective Scientific Language and Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Our second episode with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs takes a closer look at the fascinating and adaptable skills of marine mammals. We also come back to the practice of breathing and how it can help us to slow down in this fast-moving capitalist world. In addition, Alexis reads us a passage from her book “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals” and we hear about what marine mammals can teach us about breathing mindfully and intentionally. Together, we also reflect on the harmful narratives created by scientific language, colonialist ideas within the scientific world and how capitalism impacts our ways of inhabiting the Earth. Lastly, we talk about the Afrodeutsch or Afro-German movement as well as Alexis’ current research and book project on the poet, scholar and activist Audre Lorde. This podcast is brought to you by Dr. Aouefa Amoussouvi and 99 Questions at Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss. For more information, show notes and the podcast transcript, visit https://www.humboldtforum.org/en/programm/digitales-angebot/digital-en/decolonial-ecologies-76021/ . Image © Elia Diane Fushi Bekene, selflovetribute.com / Background Image: Sasha Engelmann & Sophie Dyer, "Image transmitted by satellite NOAA-19".